Month: July 2015

If you are a beginner in scala and you want it learn it and feed it to your veins then here are some of the steps that you can perform.

Step 1: Join this course on Coursera. Its a wonderful course and its taught by Martin Odersky himself. After completing this course there is another course following it which you can find here. After completing these two you have a pretty good insight on how to do things and you are ready to do some real coding.

Step 2 : To start coding in scala you can join HackerRank and start coding. It has a pretty good problems to move forward and these problems are divided into various levels. Complete each level and test your Skills..!

Step 3: If you have a Java background and you think that you can skip these videos, and you want to code in scala immediately then, Twitter School Scala or Experts is the thing you are looking for. Go through these easy steps and start coding.

Step 4: If you have not installed scala then you can simply try it online here.

Step 5: Now you are an intermediate coder in scala and you can code easily. You can join the SCALA Community to get more help. And for reference you can easily download, Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky Book. Its bible of scala.

Knoldus is a select Typesafe partner and has been engaged in delivering reactive, scalable products for the last 4.5 years. The company boasts of well rounded full stack developers who engage with the clients and take their reactive product dream to reality. A lot of case studies can be accessed here. An integral part of the Knoldus Internship Program (KIP) is to introduce great minds on Java to the beautiful Scala language. There are 2 months worth of classroom sessions held for engineers who want to leap to Scala after having worked for a few years on Java. These sessions include Scala, Akka, Play framework, Spark, Spray, Design Patterns, Good coding practices, TDD with Scala, Selenium DSL, Angular js, Backbone and much more. The batch of KIP-2015 was no different. We had a set of very capable interns join us and we started brain washing them on Scala.